In the movie Oppenheimer, there is a cast of characters that participated in the Manhattan Project linked to the Periodic Table of Elements. Although Marie Curie and Alfred Nobel are not included in the movie, their work certainly contributed to the production of the first atomic bomb. 

All of these people ushered in a new world, a world that was drastically altered after the Trinity Project in 1945 – The Atomic Age.

These are the scientists whose names have been immortalized in the Periodic Table of Elements. 

Curium (Cm) Atomic number 96 – A radioactive element named in honor of Marie Curie who won the Nobel Prize twice. In 1903 for Physics and in 1911 for chemistry. (1867 – 1934) Age 66

Einsteinium (Es) Atomic number 99 – named in honor of Albert Einstein. A radioactive element that does not occur in nature and only produced by nuclear detonation. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics 1921. (1879 – 1955) Age 76

Fermium (Fm) Atomic number 100 – named in honor of Enrico Fermi – Inventor of the world’s first nuclear reactor. Received a Nobel Prize for Physics in 1934. A synthetic element produced by the detonation of the hydrogen bomb. (1901 – 1954) Age 53

Nobelium (No) Atomic number 102. Radioactive number 102. Named in honor of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite (TNT) An unnatural synthetic radioactive element produced in particle accelerators. (1833 – 1896) Age 63.

Lawrencium (Lr) Atomic number 103 – named in honor of Ernest Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron. A radioactive synthetic element and extremely toxic. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939. (1901 -1958)

Rutherfordium (Rf) Atomic number 104 – named in honor of physicist Ernest Rutherford. A synthetic element not found in nature. A radioactive element created in a particle accelerator. Received the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1908 for postulating the nuclear structure of the atom, discovered alpha and beta rays, and proposed the laws of radioactive decay. (1871 – 1937) Age 66.

Seaborgium (Sg) Atomic number 106 – named in honor of nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg, A synthetic toxic radioactive element not found in nature. (1912 -1999) Age 87

Bohrium (Bh) Atomic number 107. – named in honor of Niels Bohr who received the Nobel Prize for his paper on atomic structure and quantum theory. A synthetic element created in particle accelerators and not found in nature. (1885 – 1962) Age 77